The Turned Queen

Vincent Von Stein

Athanasius gets out of his daze as he looks around but Scarlett was nowhere to be seen. He runs out after Scarlett while yelling her name.

"Wait. Listen to me!"

In a distance Scarlett could hear him as she fastened her pace and rushed downstairs -her waist length raven black hairs flew back as she rushes across the hall to get out of the ball as soon as possible, she didn't look where she was going until she bumped into something very hard and the impact made her lose her balance, she was about to fall backwards when a strong arm held her waist and caught her on spot and on cue sparks started to fly all over her body as she heard a low melodic voice, "MATE."

Scarlett opened her eyes slowly,

'No way, it can't be him!' Chills ran down her spine but the sparks all over her body didn't lie to her. Her heart was racing and she was almost out of breath when her grey eyes met those deep amethyst eyes sparkling at her. Scarlett's mouth was wide open in shock as she shivered and tried to function but she had no control over her body. She was in his arms, staring at him as the once lost glimmer of her silver grey eyes came back to live, her heart was beating wildly against her chest in sync with the person who held her. His amethyst eyes held her silver eyes as he smiled like a fool at her. His pale skin was glowing in the ball lights, his copper red hairs where styled back but his smooth hairs were stubborn enough that a lock of his hair fell on his forehead making him look like a Greek god in the black suit he was wearing with a navy blue tie which matched Scarlett's outfit. There she was again, in his arms -there was no escape from him because he was after all her mate, Vincent Von Stein.

Scarlett had imagined getting captured by him in all the ways but absolutely not like this, she went all the way and still ended up in his arms like a fool.

"Yo..youu.. howw..when..what the f**k?!" Scarlett was thunderstruck and her mind was blank, her body couldn't function as her brain was screaming at her to push him back and run but the rational side of her brain knew that she couldn't escape him anymore, atleast not for a while.

Vincent took the liberty and wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tight while breathing in her scent. Scarlett felt the familiar arms as she took in his scent which even if she didn't wanted to accept she missed like crazy. Scarlett closed her eyes and rested in his arms for a moment, in peace, in longing, in need but soon her body started functioning as she tried to get out of his hold.

"Let go of me."

The key word tried, he held her more tightly, "I missed you like hell. You drive me crazy, young lady."

He held her a little longer before letting her go.

Vincent was over the moon when he saw Scarlett rushing towards him without looking where she was going as she fell right in his arms. Although he went through hell for the last fifteen days without her but now that he finally had her in his arms all his anger dissipated in thin air.

He was on cloud nine as he held her hand in his and looked at her.

Scarlett looked breathtakingly gorgeous in the gown as his heart rate was accelerating while he felt the sparks flying all over his body and he knew Scarlett was feeling exactly the same things as him, that's what mate bond does.

"How did you find me?" Scarlett was a little frightened as he came in front of her out of blue but now she had processed it properly, although she was upset that her efforts went down the drain but she had to admit a very little part of her was actually happy that he found her.

"No matter where you go and hide, I'll chase you to the Earth's ends and I'll definitely find you no matter what." Vincent grinned at her as Scarlett stood there speechless.

"Vincent Von Stein." a magnificent voice came as they both turned to look at the source. A lady in her early thirties beside a man in his late thirties were walking towards them. They lady was wearing a formal deep magenta gown as the man was wearing a luxurious uniform suit. Their outfit screamed Royalty as Scarlett realized that the lady was a vampire and so was the man beside her, she observed the man and she felt that he looked familiar. The lady had emerald green eyes which Scarlett found oddly familiar, her eyes went well with her pale complexion, high cheekbones, perfect lips which were painted in red. The man had amber eyes which were similar to Athanasius. The man was tall around 6'1 but still lacked in front of Vincent who was 6'5, Scarlett herself was 5'9 to begin with and the heels made her look 6'1.

Vincent intertwined his fingers with Scarlett as he moved forward.

"Aunt Caera."

Scarlett looked shocked for a spilt second before she adjusted it to a poker face. She knew a little about his relatives, as he would tell her stories to get her to fall asleep.

"It's a pleasant surprise to have you here. But a little notification before you arrived would have been good for me to make preparations."

"No need for formalities Aunt, I'm here for her." Vincent held their intertwined hand up in a gesture as Caera smiled warmly at them.

Deven nodded at Vincent,

"It's good you both came. The more the merrier."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Young lady. I'm Caera La Croix and this is my husband, the king of this country -Deven La Croix."

Scarlett and Vincent bowed before them in respect.

"We are glad to meet you."

Caera and Deven smiled at them warmly.

"Young lady, what's your name?"

Scarlett gave her a small smile,

"I'm Scarlett Stanwood." she nodded at them in respect.

"You are Scarlett?" Caera looked puzzled as she looked over her husband when her eyes went wide in realization.

A familiar voice came from behind Vincent and Scarlett,

"Scarlett?"